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The House began debate on four articles of impeachment against President Clinton for perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power.

On this day, after a period of morning business, the House took up bills dealing with “Fast Track” Tarde Negotiating Authority, the Budget Surplus, Social Security and Tax Cuts. Following de…

U.S. House session for September 29th, 1998. The principle subjects were FY 1999 Legislative Branch spending and a Defense Spending Authorization.

The United States House of Representatives considered bills on agricultural exports, television broadcasts to Cuba and commerce, justice and state spending. Members also took to the House fl…

The House was in session for legislative business and paid tribute to Representative Louis Stokes.

The House of Representative opened today with prayer by Reverend Dr. Kevin Shrum, Inglewood Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee. Then the House proceeded with one-minute speeches. House mem…

The US House Of Representatives debated a Rule governing procedures for debate on a resolution letting the House take a 2 week break. The House considered 1.8 billion in legislative branch s…

The House convened to consider two of thirteen appropriations bills. One was the 8 billion dollar spending bill for military construction and the other was a 20 billion dollar spending bill …

The U.S. House of Representatives opened with prayer and then onto one-minute speeches. They later debated Campaign Finance for over an hour. Then moved to H.R. 2183. H.R. 2400 Conference Re…

The May 21st, 1998 U.S. House of Representatives Session. Among the issues addressed were: executive privilege, the campaign fundraising investigation, defense programs, health care for mili…

This House session considered three bills after One Minute Speeches on various topics including scholarships for D.C. students, childcare programs in California, the White House hiring priva…

This House session began with One Minute Speeches on a variety of Issues including shipping nuclear waste, honoring South Vietnamese army commandos, Japan’s possible recession, debate on t…

The House passed $2.9 billion for disaster relief and military operations in Bosnia and Iraq.

The House passed two bills making changes to campaign finance laws. They prohibited non-citizens from making campaign contributions and required more disclosure of all contributions to the F…

The House passed a $13 billion State Department Authorization. The House also passed a bill suspending fines on small businesses for first time violations of government paperwork requirement…

The U.S. House met to debate Tropical Forest Conservation. Before debate, one-minute speeches were heard where members can speak up to one minute on any subject of there choosing.

Representative Roscoe Bartlett R-MD, a member of the National Security Committee, talked about his legislation to reinstate gender-segregated basic training in the military. He also took aud…

The House met for morning business and then debated U.S. trade with Sub-Saharan Africa along with property rights court cases.

The U.S. House of Representatives convened for one-minute speeches before recessing until 4:30pm to continue work on a bill about preventing birth defects.